Madrid/Replicating the work done with the international missions of Cuban doctors in Bahamas, Archive Cuba has prepared a New report relating to contracts signed with the same purpose between the governments of Cuba and Jamaica. The text, which once again documents the same pattern that is reproduced in all the countries that maintain agreements are Havana, urges the United States to take the reduction of level 2 to 3 in its next annual report on human trafficking.
Cuba Archive considers that the Jamaican government is an accomplice of Cuba in what it considers a case of modern slavery and traffic of people, since doctors – and teachers, an important part of the study – perceive, as usual, a minimum part of what the State receives from Kingston. According to several collaborators, some agreements of the agreements, which are not – very transparent, would indicate that Jamaica undertakes not to hire any Cuban specialist who “deserts” the mission, in addition to canceling his work permit.
A specialist doctor who works 268 a month (separate guards), receives only $ 3.70 per hour
Several testimonies and documentation obtained by the organization once again shows this type of practices, which include passport retention, control of movements and relations with other people “and disciplinary measures of Stalinist cutting imposed by the coordinators” of Brigade. According to the report, a specialist doctor who works 268 hours a month (separate guards), receives only $ 3.70 per hour.
Jamaica Coopera, argues Cuba Archive, which considers a flagrant violation of human rights, and therefore its officials should also be subject to US sanctions. The organization also recommends that the US conditions its financial assistance to the country at the end of its agreements with the Cuban government.
According to the document, Washington gave Kingston “for security, development, health, education, communications, disaster response and other concepts” 65 million dollars in 2022 and 48 million dollars in 2024. “As money is fungible, in effect, the United States has been paying for the Cuban brigades in Jamaica,” concludes the text.
The report is a very extensive document of almost 50 pages in which the history of political relations between the two countries and the trajectory of international missions organized by Cuba since the 60s also also adhere in recent years, particularly from the pandemic, as well as in the alleged results obtained by collaboration.
Until May 2019, Cuban toilets had attended 1,447,015 patients, performed 30,761 surgical interventions and applied 73,331 doses of vaccines. The Minister of Health, Christopher Tufton, said he was “very happy with this collaboration,” and referred specifically to the ophthalmology program, of which there is striking data. In October 2024 it was stated that, since September 2023, 22 professionals – 17 of them Cubans – carried out 3,476 surgeries within the framework of that agreement. The calculation, underlines, Cuba Archive is 13.8 daily interventions in the 251 working days of the year.
The research highlights the propaganda nature of international missions, used to make “political proselytism”
The report emphasizes that, in the meantime, the medical and educational work on the island suffers a terrible setback due to the lack of doctors, as well as financing, which refutes – they point out – the allegations of the regime, which maintains that the money earned in international missions serves to finance the “achievements of the revolution”.
The investigation highlights the propaganda nature of international missions, used to make “political proselytism” and disseminate favorable content to the Cuban regime.
Last April, Archive Cuba disclosed a similar content report applicable to the Agreements between Cuba and Bahamas. A few weeks later, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned that all the officials who were involved in hiring of this type could be sanctioned by Washington, and on a tour of the beginning of May by the Caribbean warned several prime ministers of the region that this was one of the concerns of your administration.
Although Bahamas maintained that there was no slavery relationship in his agreements for the hiring of Cuban doctors and even recalled that the US had used similar systems in the past, at the end of the month he ended up ensuring that broke his agreements and proceed to hire to professionals individually and directly. However, Archive Cuba too has censored this type of solutionssince it considers that the Cuban State can press doctors to reach this type of pacts to deliver to Havana the salary difference.
